ASTM F802-83(2003)
(Guide)Standard Guide for Selection of Certain Walkway Surfaces When Considering Footwear Traction (Withdrawn 2012)
Standard Guide for Selection of Certain Walkway Surfaces When Considering Footwear Traction (Withdrawn 2012)
SIGNIFICANCE AND USE
When the conditions are such that foreign materials can come between shoe bottoms and a walkway surface, efforts should be made to design the walkway surface to remove the foreign material from between shoe bottoms and the walkway surface.
This type of slip hazard is often found in manufacturing and maintenance processes where foreign materials are frequently present on walkway surfaces. Examples are: food preparation and processing areas, rendering operations, transportation and cargo handling activities.
SCOPE
1.1 This guide is intended to assist in the selection of walkway surfaces where the presence of foreign materials may produce the danger of a slip or a fall.
1.2 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
WITHDRAWN RATIONALE
This guide is intended to assist in the selection of walkway surfaces where the presence of foreign materials may produce the danger of a slip or a fall.
Formerly under the jurisdiction of Committee F13 on Pedestrian/Walkway Safety and Footwear, this guide was withdrawn in July 2012 in accordance with section 10.5.3.1 of the Regulations Governing ASTM Technical Committees, which requires that standards shall be updated by the end of the eighth year since the last approval date.
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Designation:F802–83(Reapproved 2003)
Standard Guide for
Selection of Certain Walkway Surfaces When Considering
Footwear Traction
ThisstandardisissuedunderthefixeddesignationF802;thenumberimmediatelyfollowingthedesignationindicatestheyearoforiginal
adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision.Anumber in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval.Asuperscript
epsilon (´) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
1. Scope 3.2 This type of slip hazard is often found in manufacturing
and maintenance processes where foreign materials are fre-
1.1 This guide is intended to assist in the selection of
quently present on walkway surfaces. Examples are: food
walkway surfaces where the presence of foreign materials may
preparation and processing areas, rendering operations, trans-
produce the danger of a slip or a fall.
portation and cargo handling activities.
1.2 This standard does not purport to address all of the
safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the
4. Procedure
responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-
4.1 The presence of foreign materials on walkway surfaces
priate safety and health practices and determine the applica-
often causes people to slip. Most foreign materials, if present
bility of regulatory limitations prior to use.
on a walkway, will lower slip resistance. A foreign material in
2. Summary of Guide contact with a shoe and a walkway presents two additional
surfaces: the top of the foreign material mating with the bottom
2.1 Foreign material on a walkway surface often causes slip
of the shoe sole, and the bottom of the foreign material mating
and fall accidents. A slip can occur because foreign material
with the walkway surface. Obviously, keeping the walkway
presents an additional interface between the shoe bottom and a
surface clean of foreign materials is the best method to
walkway surface. The interface between the shoe bottom and
eliminate this potential hazard. This is not always possible,
the walkway is replaced by an interface between the shoe
however, while routine operations are being performed.
bottom and the foreign material, and another between the
4.2 Treatment of the walkway surface with an abrasive
foreign material and the walkway. Although the foreign mate-
material is a frequently used remedy when the foreign sub-
rial should be removed, it is not always easy to remove prior to
stance is soft or of low viscosity. The function of an abrasive
use of the walkway or as the foreign material is spilled. In very
walkway surface is often misunderstood.The ideal approach to
few cases can shoe bottoms be designed to provide adequate
reduce slipping on walkways is to eliminate the two additional
slip resistance to foreign materials. Instead, walkway surfaces
surfacescausedbythepresenceoftheforeignmaterial.Asharp
should be self-cleaning as they are used by pedestrians.
abrasive incorporation into the walkway surface will allow foot
2.2 This guide sets forth factors to consider in the design of
pressure to break up the foreign material and force it into voids
walkway surfaces likely to be affected by foreign materials that
between peaks of the abrasive. This process retains two
may result in slips. These considerations concern metal walk-
surfaces: the walkway and the shoe bottom. Important consid-
way materials, abrasive materials used on walkways, and
erations in the selection of an abrasive treatment are: wear
climbing systems.
resistance, resilience of abrasive material, density of abrasive
3. Significance and Use treatment, means of attachment of treatment to the walkway
surface, sanitary conditions, and appropriate abrasive size.
3.1 When the conditions are such that foreign materials can
4.2.1 Thetypeofabrasiveusedisalsoanimportantfactorto
come between shoe bottoms and a walkway surface, efforts
consider. For instance, sand, bonded to a floor surface, works
should be made to design the walkway surface to remove the
well when first applied because sand is a relatively soft
foreign material from between shoe bottoms and the walkway
material. However, the sharp edges of the sand particles are
surface.
easily rounded by wear, and foreign material tends to remain
on top of the abrasive particles. Proper selection of abrasive
This guide is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee F13 on Safety and
material depends upon the particular circumstances of the
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